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It’s flooring—and then some. Made for More.
At Interface, sustainability is at the core of who we are, so we carefully consider the materials we use in our products. We live in an industrial system where most materials are still made in ways that negatively impact our planet and our health. We do not accept that running a profitable company has to have these impacts. Instead, we are committed to showing the world a better way to do business.
We are often asked why we continue to use PVC plastic in our modular flooring since the potential negative impacts of this material’s life cycle have been widely publicised.
The answer boils down to a few key things:
ALL PVC IS NOT CREATED EQUAL.
We adopted GreenStar PVC Best Practice guidelines developed in Australia because PVC use continues to grow despite efforts like Red Lists, making it vitally important that specifiers have a way to ask for better PVC. This standard eliminates the traditional concerns about the manufacture of PVC, harmful additives like heavy metal stabilizers and phthalate plasticizers, and end of life.
While some products claim to be “PVC Free,” as if that alone makes a product healthy and sustainable, our system assesses and optimizes all materials (including PVC plastic) for their contribution to green chemistry, to circularity, and to carbon reduction as we do our part to help solve the climate crisis.
GREEN STAR
Standard Interface LVT meets the Green Star Best Practice Guidelines.
No material is without its trade-offs, however. Meeting the Green Star guidelines does not mean PVC is 100% sustainable. We took the unusual step of assessing our global supply chain to an Australian standard because it is the only independent, comprehensive standard for best practice PVC that exists in the world today, and we encourage others to do the same.
As we continue the push toward using only recycled or bio-based inputs, we always strive to ensure that today’s materials and practices are held to the highest standards available.